At this rate I may never have to think of an original thought again!

Both new and established creatives are lucky; they don’t need to wait for help from fancy agents or publicists and can take hold of their online self-promotion today with these masters sharing their best tips.

This is a follow up post to How to promote your book via Social Media. In that post I mentioned a chidren’s book called The Mousehunter.

Now you can read the author, Alex Milway, explaining what he’d recommend for self-promotion in his own words (which, you know, is probably better than me trying to paraphrase here because he’s like a proper writer and stuff).

[Using the web to promote children's book]

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But seriously… Just like with the MySpace/music promo trend the literary world is getting clever at self-publicity, leveraging a social media fanbase to get published with awards such as The Blooker Prize and self-publishing service Lulu.com which even provides a sales channel.

I’ve been admiring a friend’s work to promote his children’s book The Mousehunter, published by Faber and released earlier this year. The book has a website, blog, facebook group, Twitter stream and a whole lotta interactive stuff going on.

While all this activity has been off his own back, Faber seems to be quite web aware too running a seminar day for their authors on using the web and setting up their own YouTube channel amongst other things.